Paper (*cross-listing*): hep-th/0509184
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:45:19 GMT (55kb)

Title: Probabilities in the inflationary multiverse

Authors: Jaume Garriga, Delia Schwartz-Perlov, Alexander Vilenkin, and Sergei
Winitzki

Categories: hep-th astro-ph gr-qc

Comments: 17 pages, RevTeX 4, 2 figures
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Inflationary cosmology leads to the picture of a "multiverse," involving an
infinite number of (spatially infinite) post-inflationary thermalized regions,
called pocket universes. In the context of theories with many vacua, such as
the landscape of string theory, the effective constants of Nature are
randomized by quantum processes during inflation. We discuss an analytic
estimate for the volume distribution of the constants within each pocket
universe. This is based on the conjecture that the field distribution is
approximately ergodic in the diffusion regime, when the dynamics of the fields
is dominated by quantum fluctuations (rather than by the classical drift). We
then propose a method for determining the relative abundances of different
types of pocket universes. Both ingredients are combined into an expression for
the distribution of the constants in pocket universes of all types.

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